ICU Nurse Splits Time Caring for Patients, Earning Advanced Degree

Few are living through the COVID pandemic to quite the same degree as Stanislaus State Master of Science in Nursing candidate Shaileni Lal.

The registered nurse spends 12-hour shifts caring for COVID patients in the intensive care unit at Modesto’s Memorial Medical Center. When she leaves, she hands her duties off to her husband, Vishnu, who works the opposite 12-hour shift in the same unit of the same hospital.